This series is the first literature by Karen Kingsbury I have read. I highly recommend this book, Return, as well as the whole Redemption series. It is true to life and captures the reality of the highs and lows of what we all encounter on a daily basis. It is a series that is an encouragement to living a life of faith not based on our own power.

This is my 4th Karen Kingsbury book and I cannot get enough. This book was so good I was done reading it in 2 days and I probably would have finished it sooner if not for my kids. Super read, can't wait to get the next one!!!

Loved it....lives up to what I have come to expect of Karen Kingsbury.

Loved it....lives up to what I have come to expect of Karen Kingsbury.

Return is the 3rd book in Karen Kingsbury's Redemtion series. This book is mainly focused on Luke, the Baxter's only son, straying from God after some traumatic events, including 9/11. He rejected his Faith, his family, and the girl he loved. Instead he turned to a life leading to destruction, and he messed with a false religion--freethinking. "Freethinking meant he could avoid his family if he wanted to. According to freethinking, whatever thought he went with was the right one." "Luke's life was strange and dark and empty and alone." This book is a heart-wrenching story of a family's love and devotion to one another through thick and thin. It makes you feel like you are living life right alongside the Baxter family. Karen Kingsbury does an amazing job of getting the reader involved in the book--you won't be able to set it down!

Return is the 3rd in the Redemption Series, following Redemption and Remember. Return focuses on the Baxters' son Luke. He becomes "disenchanted" with God and turns 180 degrees from the values of his family. As always, the interactions between the Baxter family members not only make an engaging story, but also teach the reader the importance of trusing God. This is my favorite series of all time, and I do read constantly! It evokes strong emotions in the reader, because there is bound to be someone's behavior or some life situation that really hits home. It is a book you'll never forget! Buy the entire Redemtion Series at once so that you won't have to pause between books. Here they are in order: Redemption, Remember, Return, Rejoice, and Reunion. And even after that there is a spinoff series that promises to be just as rewarding: the Firstborn Series, also involving the Baxter family but with some new characters and situations--outstanding!

I can't believe how true to life the issues are that the author's characters' deal with in her novels. No pain is sidestepped. No pat answers are offered. True healing and forgiveness are experienced. Consequences of sin are suffered. This is real life with a whole lot of hope. The resolutions made sense and weren't easy fixes. I got choked up nearly as often with this book as I did Remember. Also, I read the entire novel in two days (around working my full time job.) Wonderful read. I especially loved the contrast between liberal thinking and true faith. Highly recommended.

This book was so great that I read it late into the night until I finished. Karen Kingsbury has a way of creating such endearing characters that you wish were real friends. The message of hope in the darkest seasons of life shines through each page.

This book was so great that I read it late into the night until I finished. Karen Kingsbury has a way of creating such endearing characters that you wish were real friends. The message of hope in the darkest seasons of life shines through each page.

This author is awesome. I have read several of her books, very heartfelt and touching. I highly recommend any of her books.

This book was wonderful. In fact, the whole series was so good that I couldn't put the books down. I couldn't wait to finish one book and get started on the next! I have been telling everyone I know about The Redemption Series. I will probably read them over and over again. Great Buy; worth every penny!

Have you ever felt like something was missing? And that though it wasn't the feeling where you feel empty because you are far away from God you still felt lonely??? Well that was me, but this book, reminded me of all the promises God has made in His Word, it filled my heart with so much joy, and that must be why i feel so much lighter today. I must say, I cried a whole lot thru every book, but I was given so much hope in this book. I know that God will do what's always best for me...
Upon reading the first book Redemption, I knew I had to read the whole series. I for one will be most sad when I read the last book.

This one didn't grab me like REMEMBER, but perhaps it's because that was the first I read in the series. Some of the events here seemed repeated a bit much and maybe a little over the top, but I read on to see what happened to everyone. Ms. Kingsbury and Mr. Smalley are a great team and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

This book is simply AMAZING! I was hooked as soon as I opened it and can't stop reading it again and again. It is beautiful. It touches your heart with a message of love. God's love expressed through a family's love for eachother and the romantic kind of love that women LOVE to read about. This story has taken me on a rollercoaster of emotions: laughing, crying from sadness, and crying from joy. I HIGHLY recommend this book.

Just when everything seems to be going wrong with this country, our relationships with others, our very lives, Kingsbury delivers this shining light in our time of darkness. This book not only addresses possible reactions from 9/11 but how one family overcame adversity brought by consequences of their sin. This story touched me and showed me that there is always hope!

I admit, I didn't read the first two books of this series. But I really didn't need to. The author spends a whole lot of time reminding you of past events. Also, I'm amazed that this family is so messed up. I understand we live in the real world, and we're all sinful, and people make lots of mistakes, but come on. I bought this book because I was interested in reading some Christian fiction (I'm more partial to Georgette Heyer and Jane Austin myself), and well, I came away disappointed. Back to regency novels for me, I guess.